Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Equal Weight: Middle Road of ETF Investing
By Ronald DeleggeOver the past 50 years, the nature of index investing has changed radically, as index-based funds like ETFs have taken a prominent place in portfolio management.…
May 04, 2015
Fed seeks data showing happiness is a full shopping cartReal disposable incomes rose 6.2 percent in the first quarter, the most in more than two years.
May 01, 2015
A Little-Known Bond Vehicle for When Interest Rates RiseTarget date bond ETFs have been skating under the radar since 2010. But that could change when markets become convinced that rates will soon rise.
May 01, 2015
Retail Investors Still Bullish, for NowThe gap is narrowing between the bulls and the bears, E-Trade Financials quarterly tracking study finds.
May 01, 2015
GMO’s Grantham: Some Boom Left Before the DoomJeremy Grantham thinks the market will rise another 8% before the bubble bursts, leaving a legacy of multiyear negative real returns.
May 01, 2015
Summer’s Coming: When Trends and Fundamentals Disagree — Searching for Alpha for May 2015Do current fundamentals support last months equity pullback, or is this is a case where market action and fundamentals simply disagree?
May 01, 2015
Consumer sentiment in U.S. rises to second-highest since 2007A stronger sense of job security and building momentum in wage growth are helping to buoy consumer confidence.
May 01, 2015
SEC Investigates Bank of America for Doing NothingIf you make it too obvious that your transaction is about getting around rules, that's the sort of thing that the SEC doesn't like.